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After spending the winter in Vinland, Leif sailed back to Greenland, and never returned to North American shores. He is generally believed to be the first European to reach the North American continent, nearly four centuries years before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.

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Erikson sailed off course on his way back to Greenland and landed on the North American continent, where he explored a region he called Vinland, he explored because his king converted him to Christianity.

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Leif Erikson was the first European to set foot in the New World or the americas, basically having resources for the Vikings to explore.

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Leif Erikson was motivated by God and Glory because he was converted to Christianity which is God, and glory because it was showing pride to his country.

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The land changed only a little. Because he found the land but christopher columbus was the one who changed stuff and killed all the natives.

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He set up the vikings with resources to start them up, until christopher columbus came 4 centuries later.

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He didn't come across any natives because after a winter in Vinland he left and never returned.

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Leif Erikson left some of his european/nordic culture as he became the first person, hundreds of years before Columbus, to discover america.The names of Scandinavian kings are reliably known only for the later part of the Viking Age.

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Leif also changed the world by converting the Greenland people from Paganism to Christianity. So he is the reason why most the people in Greenland are Christians.

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Most people came to new colonies for economic opportunities, political freedom, and religious freedom. Some people came because they didn't have political freedom. If they opposed the government or its policies, they would be persecuted.

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Leif found america for the vikings, then a century later Christopher Columbus “discovered” america and set up america. He was the one who discovered the land not Christopher, so his path was important.

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Countries colonize to get more power and bring back stuff to their kings and queens so they can keep their jobs.

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Natives Perspectives when countries colonize

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Natives Perspectives when countries colonize

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The natives get kicked out of their country and they are forced to follow the colonizers instructions or they will be killed. So all the natives obviously don't like it.

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“History - Leif Erikson.” BBC, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/erikson_leif.shtml.

History.com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/topics/exploration/leif-eriksson.

“Leif Eriksson.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 5 May 2016, www.biography.com/people/leif-eriksson-9378184.